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Most reliable LGA1150 MOBO's?

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Hi, I'm going to upgrade to an i7-4790K from AMD FX-8370.

But when I check reviews on newegg there are so many negative reviews about a lot of motherboards...

 

Do you guys know some LGA1150 motherboards with a high majority of satisfied customers?

 

Budget: about 170 USD

 

Maybe I pay more if it's great.

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Asus Z97-A?

Specs: i7-4790k with Thermaltake Water 3.0, EVGA GTX 970, MSI Z97 Gaming 3, Kingston HyperX 2x8 DDR3 1600Mhz, SSD Boot Drive/1TB HD, CM Storm Stryker, EVGA Supernova G2 750W

Peripherals: SS Rival, HyperX Cloud, G710+

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The MSI Z97 is a good one

i7-4790k | MSI Z97 GAMING-5 | Corsair Vengeance 16 GB | Samsung EVO-850 250GB SSD & WD blue 1 TB HDD | EVGA 1070 SC | Red NZXT H440 | Cooler Master G650W

 

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Asus Z97-A?

For $170 you can probably get the Z97-PRO

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Note that the number of negative reviews is always much much higher than the actually problem rate, people are more likely to post if they had a issue with the product than if it worked just fine.

 

Almost any motherboard would do you fine and I would argue just to go cheap and replace it if it happens to fail (very unlikely).. but I heard Asus' TUF series are designed to last, and have a very long warranty (10 years I think) to prove it.

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Anything ASUS and Gigabyte I can recommend. I have had way to many problems with MSI at work and from personal experience, I have not used ASRock yet but I have heard they have stepped up there game.

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For $170 you can probably get the Z97-PRO

yeah probably :P

 

I'm in Canada so its 184.99 CAD in newegg.ca

Specs: i7-4790k with Thermaltake Water 3.0, EVGA GTX 970, MSI Z97 Gaming 3, Kingston HyperX 2x8 DDR3 1600Mhz, SSD Boot Drive/1TB HD, CM Storm Stryker, EVGA Supernova G2 750W

Peripherals: SS Rival, HyperX Cloud, G710+

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Anything Gigabyte or Asus for that budget will serve you well.

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Thanks a lot for the replies guys. I may go for the Asus Z97-PRO GAMER or GIGABYTE GA-Z97X-UD3H since your replies have helped me a ton with my struggles.

 

Note that the number of negative reviews is always much much higher than the actually problem rate, people are more likely to post if they had a issue with the product than if it worked just fine.

Thank you. Yea, I kinda thought it would be something like that. Kind of annoying.

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